Strengthening the Working Party on relations with national Parliaments

Resolution 135 (1957)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

(see Doc. 715, Report of the Working Party on relations with national Parliaments). This Resolution was adopted by the Assembly at its 26th Sitting, on 28th October 1957

The Assembly,

Having examined the Interim Report (Doc. 640) and the First Annual Report (Doc. 715) of the Working Party on Relations with National Parliaments, set up in virtue of Resolution 104 of 25th October 1956;

Reaffirming yet again its determination to make its contribution towards greater unity between the Member States of the Council of Europe;

Believing that this contribution is the more important as so little action is taken by the Committee of Ministers on the Assembly's recommendations;

Welcoming the substantial progress in bringing the work of the Consultative Assembly to the notice of national Parliaments and in obtaining from individual Ministers response to Assembly recommendations on which the Committee of Ministers (or their Deputies) fails to act;

Desiring to increase the capacity of the Working Party to carry out its duties efficiently,

Resolves as follows :

1 The membership of the Working Party shall be increased from seven to fifteen, each national delegation to the Consultative Assembly being entitled to one member.

2 There will be substitutes for each member as before.

3 The members of the Working Party will continue to be assisted by "spokesmen" in the national Parliaments, where national delegations so decide.